Re: FLASH: Mouse-Keyboard Demon Exorcised! flash 5 plugin culprit?

[John Dowdell]

I'd like to follow up with the original poster, thanks... they should be

able to achieve what they want, more easily.


I suspect they're actually talking about the Macromedia Flash Player 5 in a

Netscape browser, rather than the Macromedia Flash 5 authoring environment.


A Netscape Plugin will not be activated on a page which does not show this

content. Therefore I suspect they're opening a page with a

rendered-in-realtime animation. This would, of course, impose a load on the

processor.


They could also see a version-to-version difference if the particular SWF

they're viewing was set with a very high frame rate, as described in the

advisory:

"Issues with Macromedia Flash Player 5"

http://www.macromedia.com/go/14732


If my hunch is correct, and they're actually keeping the browser open to a

very high framerate movie while trying to do other things in other apps,

then they might consider fixing the source problem by setting their movie

to a framerate which can be more readily achieved on a wider range of

machines. If this is not their own movie, then they can just flip to some

other page in the browser. This seems more sustainable than never-ever

viewing any current SWF content again.




At 3:58 PM 10/1/0, Michael Werth wrote:

>from a DV editing list i monitor (mostly mac-based) - and now that you

>mention it, my puter has been sucking bag for about the amount of time i've

>had flash 5 installed....hmmm... any resources at hand for going back to

>flash 4 plugin for win98???

>

>> Nailed the problem:  Flash 5.

>>

>> My desktop machine always has Eudora Pro and Netscape Navigator

>> running.  The mouse and keyboard freezes and stutters were making my

>> machine virtually unusable, and I was getting ready to freak.  As

>> part of the many things I was trying, I've been restarting quite

>> often, and this morning I did something just slightly different than

>> usual.

>>

>> After a reboot or a cold start, I usually start up both Eudora and

>> Navigator, and then check mail, etc.  I noticed that even when not

>> experiencing freezes, my mouse movements were considerably slower

>> after both apps were running - as if I'd changed the mouse settings.

>> This morning, for no reason, I started Eudora only, got my mail, and

>> then noticed that the mouse was as zippy as right after restarting.

>> When I started up Navigator, it went all sluggish.  Aha!

>>

>> About four days ago I installed Flash 5 in Navigator.  Fortunately, I

>> archive most installers, and still had the Flash 4 installer.  I

>> yanked out Flash 5, reinstalled 4, and everything's now humming along

>> flawlessly.





jd







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